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Kim Jong Il and his father Kim Il Sung. United States Special Envoy for the Korean Peace Talks, Charles Kartman, who was involved in the 2000 Madeleine Albright summit with Kim, characterised Kim as a reasonable man in negotiations, to the point, but with a sense of humor and personally attentive to the people he was hosting. [170]
Kim Hyong-jik (Korean: 김형직; 10 July 1894 – 5 June 1926) was a Korean independence activist during Japanese rule.He was the father of the North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, the paternal grandfather of Kim Jong Il, and a great-grandfather of the current leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un.
Kim's second wife, Kim Jong Suk, and their son, Kim Jong Il Kim Il Sung is believed to have married 3 times, although virtually nothing is known about his first wife. [ 105 ] His second wife, Kim Jong Suk (1917–1949), [ 2 ] gave birth to two sons and one daughter before her death in childbirth during the delivery of a stillborn girl.
The Kim family, officially the Mount Paektu bloodline (Korean: 백두혈통), named for Paektu Mountain, in the ideological discourse of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), and often referred to as the Kim dynasty after the Cold War's end, is a three-generation lineage of North Korean leadership, descending from the country's founder and first leader, Kim Il Sung.
The train car used by his father, North Korea founder and “Great Leader” Kim Il Sung, felt more like a period piece and contained items that harked back to the 1960s and 1970s.
His son Kim Jong Il was announced as North Korea's next leader with the title of "The Great Successor" (Korean: 위대한 계승자) that same day, marking the beginning of a dynasty of rulers in the country. Seventeen years later, he died on 17 December 2011 of the same cause of death as his father and Jong Il's demise was announced two days ...
North Koreans also bow to statues of Kim Jong Il, the father of their current leader, Kim Jong Un. A public square in Rason, North Korea, in 2017.
Like his father and son, when his name is written, it is always emphasised by a special bold font or in a larger font size, for example: "The great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il provides on-the-spot guidance to the Ragwon Machine Complex." or "The great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il provides on-the-spot guidance to the Ragwon Machine Complex." [1] [2]